Tag: Waitlisted

All is not lost if your teen gets waitlisted. Colleges offer applicants spots on their wait list during the regular admission periods, but those applicants typically won't hear about being admitted until after May 1 (the deadline for accepted seniors to secure their spot with their deposit.)
Admissions officers make their final decision on whether there are any openings left in the next freshman class among those who are admitted but choose not to attend.
If your teen is wait-listed, that means that your student is competitive among that school's pool of applicants. After the May 1 deadline, the admissions officers will go back and reexamine your teen's application and other students on the wait list.
Read on to find out the five recommended steps to make wait-listed acceptance a potential reality:
Accept or reject a place on the wait list. This is done online or by sending in a postcard. If your teen accepts, be certain that the school is definitely a...